"We are totally jazzed about today," Porter said. "This is the end of an eight or nine year campaign to get a new building."

Total cost of the building is in the ballpark of $120 million, Porter said. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation contributed $30 million.

The computer science department is celebrating with a party stretching into this evening. It includes a Rock Band 3 competition and an 8 p.m. performance by the second place finisher on America's Got Talent, local band Arc Attack.